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What are the things you should look for when deciding if your horse is a jumper or hunter?
Style it jumps and if it is quite or not
Hunters are great movers it depends on how they move and jumpers are faster.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
If he is a good mover or not. How much he exaggerates his knee movement. If he has a lot of knee movement, he would never win a hunter class. Cool temperament.
Hunter
-Easy ability to keep an even rhythm
-Confirmation and Looks
-Calm disposition in ring
-Stronger quality of all gaits
-Must look easy to ride
-Not in a rush towards fences
Jumper
-Excited about fences
-More forward natural motion
-Jumps round
-More adjustable
-Potential to Jump higher than 1.20m
-Easy ability to keep an even rhythm
-Confirmation and Looks
-Calm disposition in ring
-Stronger quality of all gaits
-Must look easy to ride
-Not in a rush towards fences
Jumper
-Excited about fences
-More forward natural motion
-Jumps round
-More adjustable
-Potential to Jump higher than 1.20m